$300 in upgrades to waste on PC - Opinions?

[Lyfer]

Built the following system almost a year. Most of the parts were gifted from family. I mainly spend my time with managing multiple VDI's staring at 2-3 Excel workbooks at a time. I do game casually about 2-4 hours a day and I play primarily WoW: Legion, Overwatch, BF1 and BF4. I'm looking forward to Destiny 2 and am hopeful I can enjoy it at 1080p above 100FPS.

My budget is up to $300 to spend and I'm thinking about an nVME drive like the the Samsung EVO 960 512GB. Another option I'm considering is parting ways with my GTX1070 and getting a 1080 TI? (Or wait for next gen?)

Current PC:
Intel i7 6700 (non K) with Cryorig M9 HSF
MSI Gaming B150 MB (has one M2 nVME compatiable slot)
Crucial 525GB MX300 (running about ~100gb free)
Seagate 1TB HDD 7200RPM
MSI Gaming GTX 1070 8GB
Monitor's - Benq 27" 144HZ and two el cheapo Samsung 23" IPS.
Logitech KB and Razor MMO gaming mice
Siberia V2 headphones

Thanks in advance!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

$300?

1TB SATA SSD and a case of beer. Possibly two cases of beer.

 

[sdifox]

second the SSD recommendation but I would get more drives for better return

 

[fleshconsumed]

Eh, this is a fairly balanced system, I don't see anything that you can improve using $300. I suggest bank that $300 and wait till you actually need to spend it whether because you run out of space on your OS SSD, or because 1070 is not fast enough.

 

[whm1974]

Eh, this is a fairly balanced system, I don't see anything that you can improve using $300. I suggest bank that $300 and wait till you actually need to spend it whether because you run out of space on your OS SSD, or because 1070 is not fast enough.

I agree a larger SSD will give the most benefit.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Larger SSD, or save the money and put it towards a Ryzen rig, or maybe ThreadRipper. (grin)

 

[jhansman]

Yeah, larger, faster boot SSD. Besides RAM, best investment (assuming you need it) you can make in your system.

 

[aigomorla]

960 EVO NVMe will not give u a better gaming experience over a MX300.

Trust me, i have compared both of them in many games, and do not notice jack squat in anything.
So if you gonna get the 960, id suggest you make it a boot SSD instead of a steam/origin folder.

However id probably get a 1TB SSD as dave suggests that way u dont need to re OS anything and face the horrible win10 reactivation on new hard drive fiasco.

 

[Newbian]

For 1080p you really won't have anything to upgrade to get better performance as you are set for now really.

The 1080 ti is a waste short of 1440p 144hz really at this time and vega is around the corner.